ADJ.
english, express, famous, great, greatest, many, nearest
Many famous American writers have influenced literature around the world.
VERB + AMERICAN
attended, figures, gave, get, know, married, marrying, plaguing
She married an American and moved to New York last year.
AMERICAN + NOUN
australian, birth, college, doll, economy, football, girl, history
My daughter received an American doll for her birthday and she plays with it every single day.
PREP.
between, from, in, in
The differences between American and British English can be quite confusing for new learners.
noun
A citizen or national of the United States of America.
Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation... is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen.
...the British ruling class obviously could not admit to themselves that their usefulness was at an end. Had they done that they would have had to abdicate. For it was not possible for them to turn themselves into mere bandits, like the American millionaires, consciously clinging to unjust privileges and beating down opposition by bribery and tear-gas bombs. After all, they belonged to a class with a certain tradition, they had been to public schools where the duty of dying for your country, if necessary, is laid down as the first and greatest of the Commandments.
Any inhabitant of the Americas.
A citizen or inhabitant of British America.
An indigenous inhabitant of the Americas.
The Americans believe that all creatures have souls.
Within a few months the ‘slave Alexandre’ had been successfully transformed into what, across the Channel, was called a ‘blackamoor dandy’. Parisians preferred the more politely euphemistic term ‘American’. ]
An inhabitant of French or Spanish New World colonies.
1839, Washington Irving, 'National Nomenclature', The Knickerbocker In France, when I have announced myself as an American, I have been supposed to belong to one of the French colonies; in Spain, to be from Mexico, or Peru, or some other Spanish-American country.
adj
Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people, or its culture.
He married an American woman in order to get an American passport.
Thanksgiving is an American tradition.
Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas.
This is pure American powder from the foothills of Colombia.
Of, from, or pertaining to British North America.
Of, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
Able to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry.
All of these trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Most of the contracts are European. An exception is the OEX contract on the S&P 100, which is American.
Multi-dimensional option pricing becomes an important topic in financial markets (Franker et al., 2008). Among which, the American-type derivative (e.g. the Bermudan option) pricing is a challenging problem.
name
A township in Allen County, Ohio, United States.
The ideal stressing egalitarianism and that every citizen of the United States should have an equal opportunity to achieve material prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.
They are not racists or sick; they are not guilty of the crime that plagues the land. They are black and they are white —they're native born and foreign born—they're young and they
Used to ask whether or not products or services may be paid for in American dollars.
Americans, as a group, are not especially intelligent and can be readily entertained or fooled to produce a financial benefit for someone.
Ed Wood was a backwards genius, he set out to make horror movies and he didn’t know how to do it. . . . Mencken said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of th
Alternative form of nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
Alternative form of nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, whi
Wiktionary...the British ruling class obviously could not admit to themselves that their usefulness was at an end. Had they done that they would have had to abdicate. For it was not possible for them to turn th
WiktionaryMy fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
WiktionaryHe married an American woman in order to get an American passport.
WiktionaryThanksgiving is an American tradition.
WiktionaryShould you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
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